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| Typography | The design of the characters & the way they are presented on the page |
| Serif Typeface | characters with attributes on the tips used for body text in publications or documents |
| Sans Serif Typeface | Characters that do not have attributes |
| Ornamental Decorative Typeface | Designed strictly to catch the eye used for headlines in flyers or advertisements |
| Script Typeface | Characters that appear to be written by hand used for formal announcements & invitations |
| Font | specific size, weight, & style applied to a character |
| Font Style | the slant & weight of a character such as bold or italic |
| Font Family | A group of similarly formatted typefaces |
| Monospaced | All characters receive an equal amount of space regardelss of the size of the character |
| Proportional | All characters receive a different amount of horizontal space based on the size of the character |
| Leading | Vertical spacing between lines of text |
| Kerning | Horzontal spacing between pairs of letters |
| Tracking | Horizontal spacing between all the characters in a large block of text |
